Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thick murk of confusion, conjecture and reticence has obscured the full dimensions and exact nature of the Reno-La Salette financial disaster. According to the National Catholic Reporter, the progressive lay weekly that broke the story last week, the Reno diocese and the La Salette fathers both faced bankruptcy after losing as much as $15 million - the exact amount is not known - in a $25 million investment operation called the St. Joseph Trust Fund. Other investors, including an unidentified Canadian diocese and a Canadian women's religious order, may have lost another $6 million or more...
This plot seems more aptly suited for comedy and is inadequate to convey any political messages Wertmuller intended. Her material is simple and scant, for the dim-witted peasant has no ideological beliefs to articulate and a thick blanket of fear stifles his emotions. Except for one drunken outburst and a wild frenzy at the end, his eyes are expressionless, with pupils the size of pinpoints...
...greater promise is offered by more than 545 billion tons of coal. At present rates of use, Wyoming could supply the nation's total coal demand for a quarter-century. Much of the coal is low-polluting, low-sulfur sub-bituminous that lies in miles-long, 45-ft.-thick seams only a few feet below the surface...
Woods Hole Marine Biologist John Ryther has devised an even more ingenious aqua-farming scheme using partially treated sewage water from the Cape Cod town of Wareham. In his ponds, Ryther raises a thick harvest of plankton, which is then fed to baby oysters. To remove whatever ammonia, phosphates or nitrates the oysters and plankton may have left behind, he runs the sewage water over beds of seaweed, which also thrives on these chemicals...
...front-page story, and finds himself in the middle of a great conspiracy involving the water supply of thirsty Los Angeles--rendered here with delicate eye and choice of color filters. Enter Faye Dunaway, older than you remember her, as the real wife of the man, soon murdered, her thick dark lipstick granting her what Joyce somewhere calls red mollusc lips...